Album Format Not Dead (Adele #1 Digital Album)

The following news story shows that people will still download full albums if it is filled with great songs.

Just one week after Eminem’s Recovery became the first album to sell 1 million digital copies, Adele’s 21 has surpassed the milestone and is now the biggest-selling digital album in history. Digital sales of 21 exceed 1.017 million (out of 2.6 million total), compared with Recovery‘s 1.005 million (out of 3.9 million). Overall, almost a third (32%) of the 155.5 million albums sold in the first half of 2011 were digital, according to a midyear report released last week by Nielsen SoundScan. That’s up 19% from the same period in 2010, when 27% of 153.9 million album sales were digital.